Weather in Genoa in November

Shoulder season. November is shoulder season in Genoa — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 15 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 9 of 12 in Genoa: past the worst of the year but short of June, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

This is wet-season rain: 12 wet days and 5 genuinely heavy ones, which in this climate means concentrated downpours rather than all-day grey. The pattern is usually a clear morning and a loud afternoon, so front-load the day and stop fighting the 3pm hour. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 15 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 24.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 0.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 60 mm — roughly 41% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 17 mm in the driest year against 358 mm in the wettest, around an average of 145 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 84%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6.1 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 4.3 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

9.7 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Genoa's extremes of 15.5 and 8.9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 17.3 °C in November — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. The sea peaks at 24.5 °C in August and bottoms out at 13.1 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

November in Genoa versus nearby

If Genoa is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Milan is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Nice is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: November is a compromise. June is 25 points better and is what Genoa is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Genoa

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